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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sla?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /slæ?/
• Hyphenation: slash
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used once in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ?/?. See also slash fiction.

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. A slashing action or motion, particularly:
   1. A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.

   2. (cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.
   3. (ice hockey, lacrosse) A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
   4. Any similar wide striking motion.

   5. (figuratively) A sharp reduction.

2. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:
   1. A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.

   2. (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
3. Something resembling such a mark, particularly:
   1. (fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
   2. (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
      • 1895, Henry Van Dyke, Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness

        We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.

   3. (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ?/?, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ?\?.
      • 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:

        Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

   4. (vulgar, slang) Female genitalia.
4. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.

5. (fandom slang) Slash fiction.
   • 2013, Katherine Arcement, "Diary", London Review of Books, vol. 35, no. 5:

     Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).

Synonyms

• (deep cut): gash
• (typographic mark): slash mark; solidus (formal name); stroke (chiefly UK); forward slash, forward stroke, foreslash, frontslash, front slash (sometimes proscribed); virgule (marking line breaks); shilling mark (UK, historical currency sign); slants, slant lines (marking pronunciations); separatrix (proofreading mark); scratch comma (former use as a form of comma); oblique, oblique mark, oblique stroke, oblique dash (chiefly UK, dated); diagonal, diagonal mark (dated); virgula (obsolete); virgil (UK, obsolete); whack (improper); bar (improper, obsolete)
• (vulgar term for female genitalia): See cunt

Antonyms

• backslash

Hypernyms

• (typographic mark): fraction bar (in fractions); division sign (in division)

Hyponyms

• division slash
• fraction slash

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Punctuation

Verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

1. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:
   1. To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

   2. To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
   3. (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
   4. (figuratively) To reduce sharply.

   5. (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
   6. (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
2. To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
   1. (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
3. To move quickly and violently.
4. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
5. (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.

6. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.

Synonyms

• (to strike with a whip): lash, scourge, thrash
• (to strike a whip): crack

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• (slash fiction): ship

Translations

Adverb

slash (not comparable)

1. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

Conjunction

slash

1. (US and Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
   • 2001, Fabio Lanzoni, Zoolander:

     What this, the Slashie, means is that you consider me the best actor slash model and not the other way around.

2. (US and Canada) Used to list alternatives.

   Alternatives can be marked by the slash/stroke/solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.

   Read: Alternatives can be marked by the slash-slash-stroke-slash-solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.

Usage notes

Typically written with the slash mark ?/? and only spoken or transcribed as slash. Often omitted from speech and only marked as a brief pause between the alternatives. Exclusively omitted in common constructions such as and/or, either/or, and washer/dryer.

Synonyms

• (exclusive or): or
• (inclusive or): and, or, and/or
• (UK): stroke

Further reading

• slash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Of uncertain etymology. Compare Scots slash (“large splash”), possibly from Old French esclache. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
2. (vulgar, Britain, slang) A piss: an act of urination.

   Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.

Verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

1. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
   • 1973, Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers, page 189:

     If you can slash in my bed (I thought) don't tell me you can't suck my cock.

Translations

Etymology 3

Of uncertain etymology. Compare flash (“a marsh; a pool of water”) and British dialectal slashy (“wet and dirty, miry”).

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
2. (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

Verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.

Etymology 4

See slatch

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. (Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "slash, v.¹ & v.²" & "slash, n.¹, n.², n.³, & n.?". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1911.

Anagrams

• LSSAH

Spanish

Noun

slash m (plural slash)

1. (punctuation) slash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

Verb

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

1. (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
   • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I

     Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,

     In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,

     Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,

2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.

   to lop the head

Synonyms

• (to cut off): snead

Derived terms

• lopper, loppers

Translations

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

See also

• defalcate

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *lupp? (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijan? (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. (Tyneside) A flea.

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   Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Etymology 3

Back-formation from lopsided.

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
   • 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5

     "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."

2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

See also

• lob

Anagrams

• LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol

A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap

Verb

lop

1. to count

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.

Noun

lop m (plural lops)

1. wolf

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lop]
• Rhymes: -op

Verb

lop

1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-t?l)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Descendants

References

Further reading

• lop in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?p?]
• Hyphenation: lop

Noun

lop (plural lop-lop, first-person possessive lopku, second-person possessive lopmu, third-person possessive lopnya)

1. barrel (of a firearm)

   Synonym: laras

Further reading

• “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

lop

1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lup]

Noun

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf

Derived terms

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun

lop

1. end

Volapük

Noun

lop (nominative plural lops)

1. opera

Declension

Derived terms

• lopöp
• lopül